# muc
## Translingual
### Symbol

muc
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mbu'.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Mbu' terms

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* mucã

### Etymology

From Latin muccus, from mūcus. Compare Daco-Romanian muc.

### Noun

muc m (plural muts)
* snot, nasal mucus, snivel

#### Related terms

* mucoari
* mucos

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* muic (Cois Fharraige)

### Etymology

From Old Irish mucc, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus (compare Welsh moch (“pigs”), Cornish mogh, Breton moc’h).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mˠʊk/

### Noun

muc f (genitive singular muice, nominative plural muca)
* pig, swine (also figurative, of a person)
* heap; bank, drift
* scowl
* (military, history) sow

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
muc
muca
vocative
a mhuc
a mhuca
genitive
muice
muc
dative
muc muic (archaic, dialectal)
muca
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an mhuc
na muca
genitive
na muice
na muc
dative
leis an muc leis an muic (archaic, dialectal) don mhuc don mhuic (archaic, dialectal)
leis na muca :

#### Derived terms

* bolgach muice
* cró muc, cró muice
* fiabhras muc
* fliú na muc
* muc ghuine
* muc shneachta
* mucachán
* mucár
* tinneas muc

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “muc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “muc”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “muc”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
* Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 20

## Manx
### Alternative forms

* muck

### Etymology

From Old Irish mucc, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus (compare Welsh moch (“pigs”), Cornish mogh, Breton moc’h).

### Noun

muc f (genitive singular muickey or muigey, plural mucyn or muckyn or muick)
* pig
    Ta enney ec muc er muc elley. ― Birds of a feather flock together. (literally, “A pig knows another pig.”)

#### Derived terms

* coo muigey (“boarhound”)

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Middle English
### Noun

muc
* Alternative form of muk

## Polish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Masovia):
** (Far Masovian) IPA: /ˈmut͡s/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: móc

### Noun

muc m animal (diminutive mucyk or mucek)
* (Far Masovian) mutt (any dog)

### Further reading

* Antoni Waga (1860) “muc”, in “Abecadłowy spis wyrazów ludowego języka w okolicach Łomży, Wizny i przyległych”, in Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, editor, Biblioteka Warszawska (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 754

## Romanian
### Etymology

Either from its plural form muci, from Latin mucci, or from Latin mūcus, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”).

### Noun

muc m (plural muci)
* booger

#### Related terms

* mucea

### Noun

muc n (plural mucuri)
* cigarette butt, stump
* wick, candle end

#### Related terms

* mucilage
* mucoare
* mucoasă
* mucos
* mucoză
* mugur

#### See also

* muci
* mucări

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish mucc. Cognates include Irish muc and Manx muc.

### Pronunciation

* (Lewis) IPA: /mũʰk/
* (Harris, Uist, Barra) IPA: /mũxk/

### Noun

muc f
* pig, sow

#### Declension

$^✝$ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

#### Derived terms

* creamh-na-muice-fiadhaich (“asparagus”)
* gearra-mhuc
* muc-bhiorach (“dolphin or whale”)
* muc-locha (“European perch”)
* muc-mhara (“whale”)
* muicfheòil (“pork”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

### Further reading

* Colin Mark (2003) “muc”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 441

## Tarifit
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

muc m (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵓⵛ, plural imucwen, feminine tmuccewt)
* cat